Karachi, Nov 12: The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and
Technology has extended the date for submission of forms of BSc (Hons) and MSc
(previous and final) examinations. According to the examination
department of the university, the exam forms can now be submitted till November
18 with a late fee of Rs200.

Forms are available at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal
campus branch of the National Bank of Pakistan. The duly filled forms can be
submitted in the respective departments.The university, meanwhile, announced
that that it would hold a ceremony to mark the sixth founding day
(Youm-i-Tasees) of the university on Thursday at 4pm.

All teachers of the
university have been asked to attend the function being arranged at the science
faculty auditorium.

KU admissionsKarachi University has
announced that the application forms for admission against reserved seats are
available at the office of deputy registrar (academics) on a payment of
Rs300.

Candidates have been advised to submit the forms for BS third year
admission on reserved seats by November 20. The applicants have also been
directed to apply on open merit as well.

Book launchThe
Goethe Institut and the Oxford University Press will launch a book on Sufism on
Nov 12. The launching ceremony will be conducted at the Geothe Institut
Karachi.

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227 students barred from taking inter exam for use of unfair means
Karachi: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi has debarred
227 Science faculty students from appearing in their examinations for one to
three years for use of unfair means.

According to the BIEK chairman, Prof
Anwar Ahmed Zai, 13 of the 227 students have been debarred from appearing in
their examinations for three years, 18 for two years and the remaining 196 for
one year as the use of unfair means charges against them were of serious nature
and documentary evidence about them was available with the BIEK.

The
results of 60 more candidates were cancelled but they have been allowed to
appear in the supplementary examinations.

Under the rules of educational
boards, candidates debarred from appearing in examinations by any board cannot
take their examinations from any other educational board of the
country.

Giving the details of the punishments awarded to the candidates
for resorting to unfair means in their Higher Secondary School Certificate
(Science) annual examinations for 2008, Prof Zai said the BIEK had formed a
committee comprising senior professors to decide the cases of the candidates
caught while cheating in the last examinations.

The committee after going
through the cheating material seized from the students during their examinations
had given its decision in 277 such cases. However, the committee which had
provided an opportunity to all those candidates to appear before it to defend
themselves had exonerated 60 candidates of the charges, allowing them to appear
in the HSC supplementary examinations, he added.

The BIEK chairman said
the controller of examinations had been tasked to intimate the committee's
decision to the parents of all those candidates who had been
penalised.

About the unfair means cases against candidates who had
appeared in the HSC (Commerce and Arts) annual examinations, he said the board's
unfair means committee would announce its decision about such cases
later.

He said once all the cases of unfair means were decided by the
committee, the BIEK would take further measures to help curb the menace of
cheating.

The BIEK chairman was optimistic that the trend of cheating in
examinations would be reduced considerably with the introduction of the new
pattern of papers for the students of Class IX and XI from the 2009 annual
examinations.

The educational boards of Sindh have already decided to
conduct Class IX and XI annual examinations for 2009 on the new pattern
finalised with certain changes in the mode of papers and redistribution of marks
of each section of theory and practical.

Accordingly, objective-type
questions will carry 20 per cent marks, short questions 50 per cent marks while
for descriptive questions there will be 30 per cent marks.

Sindh University cuts MBA seats at Laar college by half
Badin: Students of the evening program of MBA complained on
Monday that the Sindh University had cut to half number of seats in MBA at Sindh
University Laar College.

They said that without giving any reason the
university reduced seats by 50 per cent from 100 to 50 and stopped issuing
admission forms to Laar College for MBA classes since Oct 8.

Ms Fatima
Soomro, a student of MBA (Part-I), said that the university was making
admission to all other evening programs excepting MBA, which had given rise to
the impression that the university was planning to roll back its MBA program.
The university had not declared any admission policy for MBA since then, she
added.

Ms Keenjhar Memon, another MBA student, said that in case the
university was reducing or abolishing MBA seats in the Laar College, the fate of
students studying at present would be pushed into doldrums. No one would be able
to go to the university to complete his or her MBA course, especially girls, she
feared.

She said that a 50 per cent cut in seats would deprive students
of Laar of an opportunity to get higher education near their homes. It had been
done only to please the dean of the faculty of business administration at the
Sindh University, she said.The director of admission of the Sindh University
Mohammad Ali Roshan said that the forms for admission to MBA had been delayed
and the university would supply them after Nov 15.

About reasons behind
50 per cent cut in MBA seats, he rejected the impression and said that the
university had neither mentioned number of seats in its catalogue of 2008 nor
had it reduced their number.

He said that he would recommend 100 seats
for the college.

People demanded that the speaker of National Assembly,
governor and vice-chancellor of Sindh University direct the authorities not to
reduce seats in the evening program for MBA and announce admission policy and
provide admission forms without delay. Sindh University has established its
branch named Sindh University Laar College to provide higher education to the
people living in far-flung areas of lower Sindh.

The college started MBA
classes in 2007-08 in which more than 150 students had applied for 100 seats.
The college also opened classes for BEd, MEd and MA (education) in 2008-09 to
meet demand of Laar students. Dawn

Are schools prepared for emergencies?
Karachi: With frequent reports of fire across the city and bomb hoax calls
creating panic and fear in schools, 20 different schools have taken the
initiative to develop a good school safety with the help of students in order to
prepare them for emergencies.

The project 'Are we prepared for
emergencies?' is part of a campaign launched by Children's Museum for Peace and
Human Rights (CMPHR) to help create awareness on the issue. As part of the
awareness campaign, various training workshops were organised by the CMPHR in
the past month, after which students were asked to go back and review the safety
standards at their respective schools.

Sharing their findings before an
audience at the Goethe Institut on Tuesday morning, students from schools such
as Al Murtaza, BVS Parsi, Brilliant Career, Habib Public, St Lawrence Convent,
Shah Wilayat Public, Nasra Public, Indus Academy, A.M.I, Top Care, and Karrar
Hussain Academy talked about the safety measures adopted in their
schools.

The workshop helped students understand various preventive
measures such as placement of fire extinguishers and fire alarms each school
should adopt. With the help of evacuation drills and awareness sessions in
school assemblies, students were able to achieve their target. Participants were
of the view that an increasing sense of insecurity prevails among students and
parents partially because they are not prepared to fight emergencies nor do
schools have the necessary equipment and training to deal with such
situations.

Acknowledging the efforts of students, Naeem Sadiq, a safety
consultant and a guest speaker at the session, later assisted the students and
briefed them on further different types of hazards during his workshop
developing a school safety system.

"The objective of the campaign is to
build a resilient community through safer schools. We want children to introduce
these safety measures at home and in their neighbourhood as well. They need to
be aware of the problem before they learn to tackle in emergency situations,"
Rashida Faheem, coordinator CMPHR, said.

The workshop was followed by
the screening of a short documentary 'Lessons Save Lives' that talked about a
British lady employed at a hotel in Bangkok when a tsunami hit the region in
December 2004. Based on her training to deal with emergency situations, she
managed to have the entire hotel evacuated within minutes saving the lives of
the guests and the staff members.

Students were later taken on a field
trip to the fire station where fire tenders discussed their problems and shared
their experience in tackling emergencies.

KU and TMRI collaborate for infectious disease research
Karachi: Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research
(PCMD), University of Karachi (KU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI), National Centre for
Research Ministry of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan, for collaboration
and training in infectious and non-infectious diseases.

According to a
press release issued, Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary on behalf of the PCMD, which
is also a part of the ICCBS, and Director TMRI, Dr Intisar E Elrayah signed the
memorandum during the concluding ceremony of the 11th International Symposium on
Natural Product Chemistry (ISNPC), held last week at KU.

The primary
objective of the MoU, according to Choudhary is to strengthen collaboration in
research and training with a view to reduce the risk of infections, mortality
and morbidity particularly in the developing countries like Pakistan and Sudan. The News